The Revenge of Gore-bot?

"But what if he does? What if he could take who he is now, all that he's learned, and carry it back into the maelstrom? Could he stay as he is or would he revert? What if he launched a new kind of campaign: no handlers, just the liberated Gore talking about what really matters to him? Would he seem too squishy?" No. He would seem like Al Gore. This week's Time pushes the 2000 nominee as a potential 2008 Democratic dark horse, and, Lordy, I am so not feeling it. Anybody who argues Gore has "the grassroots appeal of Barack Obama" doesn't remember the man on stage. Obama can be certifiably electric. Gore is...Gore, in all his stilted, sighing, pedantic glory. I'm thrilled the man has found a happy second career fighting global warming -- It's suited him ever since Earth in the Balance. But, please, by all that is good and holy, keep him out of the Democratic presidential field.